The second destination on our travels is Ethiopia, a country I was really looking forward to seeing, but also held some doubt simply due to the unknown. Addis Ababa We flew into Addis Ababa, from Cairo, to a pleasant 25dg (had been hovering in the high 30dg in Egypt) and were met by our friendly airport transfer. Upon leaving the nicely paved roads leading from the airport we began to realise that we were definitely no longer in Kansas... The streets in Addis Ababa tend to be a combination of main arterial routes, which are ashfelted, with a spider web of side streets of the gravel variety. We arrived at the Mimosa Hotel without any incident and proceeded to familiarise ourselves with the local neighbourhood. This is when we discovered that in Ethiopia the streets literally
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